Dr. Alexandre de Brevern, Senior Researcher, French Institute for Health and Medical Research and Dr. Sai Sudha, Scientist D, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) with the faculty scientists of IOB.

Dr. Suman Laal, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York having discussion with Dr. Keshav Prasad, during her visit to IOB.

Dr. Ajit Varki, Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine at UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny having discussion with Ph.D. students on his visit to IOB.

Dr. Gilbert S Omenn, Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (CCMB), Ann Arbor, Michigan delivering a talk to Ph.D. students on his visit to IOB.

Dr. Abdul Rahiman, the Chairman of the Peer Teams of the National Assessment & Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore having discussion with Ph.D. students on his visit to IOB.

Prof. Ashim Das, and his colleague Dr. Amanjit Bal from Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) visited IOB.

Dr. P. P. Mathur, Vice Chancellor, KIIT University and Dr. S. K. Sarangi, Professor, Bangalore University in a meeting with Dr. Akhilesh Pandey and colleagues after the doctoral committee meeting held for two students at IOB.

Dr. Krishnakumar S, MD, Oculoplasty from Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai having a discussion with Dr. Akhilesh Pandey and colleagues during his visit to IOB.

Dr. Vishal N. Patel, M.D., Ph.D. is a Visiting Instructor, Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University and Research Fellow at Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education, The MetroHealth Hospital System Cleveland, OH, U.S.A. visited IOB.

Dr. Robert Stevens, M.D., Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine with appointments in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Radiology and Mr. Dominic Seraphin, M.H.S.A., Managing Director International Leadership Team from
the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine visited IOB.

Dr. Surajit Dhara, Ph.D. is currently DBT-NIBMG Fellow at National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani, West Bengal, India and is also an Adjunct Faculty at Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. During his visit, he attended the Ph.D. viva voce of one of the students at IOB as a reviewer.

Prof. P. P. Mathur, Ph.D., F.A.M.S. is currently the Vice-Chancellor of KIIT University, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. He was Dean of School of Biochemistry and Head, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. During his visit he participated in the doctoral committee meeting as a co-guide of one of the students at IOB.

Prof. P. K. Tiwari, Ph.D., from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, visited IOB. Presently he is Professor in Zoology and coordinator of the M. Sc. Program in Molecular &
Human Genetics at the Centre for Genomics, Jiwaji University.

Dr. Milind Shenvi, Ph.D., currently Senior Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry at Sai Life Sciences Limited, Bangalore, India, visited IOB. He started his industrial career with Astra Zeneca in Bangalore where he spent 15 years and worked in the therapeutic areas such as cancer and infectious disease.

Dr. Lloyd Vincent, M.D., D.M., M.Sc., M.H.S.C., C.H.E., is a Senior Consultant Nephrologist and Clinical Director of the Dialysis services at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals and Satellite centres, Bangalore, India. He was formerly Associate Professor and Head of Nephrology at St John's Medical College, Bangalore, India. He visited IOB and gave a talk on Diabetic Nephropathy.

Prof. Arvinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., is a faculty and distinguished geneticist at Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology and Genetics at Bloomberg School of Public Health and Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. He was the President of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in 2008 and is one of the Editors-in-Chief of Genome Research

Dr. K. S Jayaraman, one of India's most popular
Science Journalist and Correspondent of Nature India Journal
visited IOB.

Dr. Krishna Kumar, currently faculty at Vision
Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India and Occular
Pathologist and Professor in Opthalmology in the Larsen and Toubro,
Department of Ocular Pathology visited IOB.

Dr. Charlie Boone from University of Toronto
visited the Institute of Bioinformatics and had a
brain storming session
with Ph.D. students and Faculty Scientists at IOB.

Dr.
Charlie Boone discussing
in detail high throughput functional genomic strategies that
his lab works on and how IOB could be
poised for such research in India.

Dr. Sam Hanash, the President of Human Proteome Organization
(HUPO) visited the Institute of Bioinformatics and
had an informal chat with all the scientists at IOB. He explained
the objectives of HUPO and mentioned the urgent need for bioinformatics
efforts.

Dr. Vesteinn Thorsson,
Research Scientist at Institute for Systems Biology visited
the Institute of Bioinformatics on January 4, 2004. He is involved
in developing with others a display tool, Cytoscape for graphically
integrating many different global data sets (mRNA and protein
concentration changes, protein/protein and protein DNA interactions,
etc.). He also made a brief presentation about his work.

Dr. Brahmachari, Dr. Guruprasad, Dr. Aravinda Chakravarti, Dr. Maynard Olson, Dr. Phil Green, took time out to visit the Institute of Bioinformatics when they were in Bangalore to attend the INDO-US Workshop on Genomics.

Dr. Philip Green and Dr.
Brahmachari visited IOB. Dr. Philip Green is Professor of Genome
Sciences at University of Washington, School of Medicine.
Dr. Akhilesh Pandey, the Founder and Director of the Institute of Bioinformatics, explaining the technical details of the
Human Protein Reference Database to Dr. Phil Green.

Dr. Maynard Olson discussing the finer points of the Human Genome
Project with the Research Scientists of the Institute of Bioinformatics.

Delegates from University of Toronto, Dr. Brenda Andrews along with Dr. Gary D. Bader visited IOB.
Dr. Andrews is the Director and Professor at Donnelly Center
and Dr. Bader is an Associate Professor and works on biological
network analysis and pathway information resources at Donnelly
Center, University of Toronto.

Mr. Shatrughan Sinha, the Union Minister of Shipping, and Mr. Vivek
Kulkarni, the Secretary of IT and BioTechnology for Govt. of Karnataka,inaugurated
the Institute of Bioinformatics on March 7, 2003 and celebrated the development
of Human Protein Reference Database.